University of Bristol biotech spin-out CytoSeek has raised £1.1m to help develop new cell therapies to treat cancer. The firm, based at Bristol’s Unit DX science incubator, has created cell membrane augmentation technology that could lead to new ways of tackling cancer. The process involves modifying a patient’s own...
A refurbished city centre office building is almost full after attracting three new occupiers in the past two months. Vintry Building, a 30,000 sq ft 1950s art deco building on Wine Street, was transformed three years ago with a new reception area, new cycle stores and showers as well...
Rapid expansion has continued at international accountancy group EY’s Bristol office with nearly 100 staff recruited over the past year. The group said the headcount in its South West and Wales practice had reached nearly 450 through apprenticeship, graduate and senior hires. This time last year it put the...
Members of the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN), the £6.5m project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region, are to get free legal advice from Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT. Under the new professional services support programme, SWCTN members will be able to access legal...
PwC, the global accountancy group, has appointed a new senior partner for its Bristol office and filled the newly created role of clients and markets regional lead. Tom Ayerst, pictured right, who heads PwC’s regional deals business, will fill the Bristol office senior partner (OSP) position left vacant in...
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Bristol has moved up in a respected league table of the UK’s best cites for economic success – with a welcome rise in the skills of its young people a deciding factor. However, the city – which is placed fourth in the latest Good Growth for Cities Index from...
One of the biggest campaigns to help female entrepreneurs in Bristol start their own businesses is to be launched later this month. The free programme – which will support more than 200 women – is the result of a link-up between enterprise partnership SETsquared Bristol and NatWest’s Back Her...
Quartet Community Foundation, the organisation that inspires local philanthropy to give everyone in the West of England a fair chance of a good life, is celebrating handing out £50m in grants since it was founded in 1987. Thirty-two years ago the Foundation awarded £16,585 to 19 projects, including ACTA,...
Bristol women’s fitness brand This Mum Runs is limbering up for its first steps into overseas markets following its second round of funding from a group of West of England private investors in just over a year. The £100,000 from Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) will help the trailblazing...
Innovative Bristol-based fintech firm Limber has unveiled a new version of its existing app – heralding a new direction for the company to stay ahead of changes in the way many people work. Previously a means of matching workers such as chefs and bar staff with unfilled shifts in...
Family-owned generator hire company Power Electrics (Bristol) is expanding across the UK after snapping up a smaller firm in a deal put together by Bristol-based advisors. Following the acquisition of Cambridgeshire-headquartered Power Electrics Ltd, which trades as PE Generators, the expanded business now has five sites stretching from Southampton...
Specialist business advisory firm FRP has promoted Alex Sargeant to director in its 11-strong Bristol team following a period of significant investment in its people and services. Alex, pictured, left, with Bristol corporate finance partner Mark Naughton, was previously an associate director in the corporate finance team, having joined...
